Daughter of Delta Flight Attendant Becomes First Black, Female Pilot in National Guard

(L) 1st Lt. Andrea Lewis (Grant Blankenship/Georgia Public Broadcasting); (R) Georgia Air National Guard

National Guard member 1st Lt. Andrea Lewis is the daughter of a 14-year veteran Navy pilot and a Delta Airlines flight attendant.

It only stands to reason, therefore, that serving in the military and becoming a pilot herself was a logical course of action. Sure enough, that’s what she’s set to do when she takes off for her first flight out of Robins Air Force Base in Georgia.